Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Italians have sometimes called "ours" was anybody's lake last week. But 60 miles south of Sicily, 225 miles north of Tripoli, the spongy little island of Malta was definitely Britain's. Malta is the most heavily and frequently bombed stronghold of World War II-and therefore in the history of the world-and from the impatient Axis last week it got its heaviest raids...
With Cyprus taken, the oil-hungry Axis would be almost at the mouth of the Haifa and Tripoli oil pipelines, within easy striking range of Allied land forces, spread thin along the northern rim of Africa. Only Cyprus stood in the way of such an eastern pincers movement...
...Laid siege to Tripoli...
...Allied observers, certain that Rommel would make another push, it seemed that much the same reasons might account for further Axis successes. From the tempo of British air and sea attacks on Tripoli and the Mediterranean convoy route, it was obvious that Rommel was taking good care to supply himself well before he advanced again...
...arcane policy which Vichy calls "collaboration" with the Axis seemed last week to be taking definite form. According to reports from London, 14,000 French trucks had been shipped to Tunisia, oil tankers were sailing directly from Marseille to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Tripoli supply base, German ships were traversing French territorial waters on their way to the African front. In spite of official denials from Vichy, the rumors persisted...